Always what I suspected, despite Prashanth writing a gushing review on his blog, and claiming Vista is more secure. There’s a new flaw that has been detected on Vista, the ‘most secure Windows ever’. But that’s not what I found interesting. Read the article, and you’ll see that the much-touted Windows Defender, the built in security app of Windows Vista, detects only 65% malware, compared to 75-99% of other security software. And then again, the User Access Control system is turning out to be counter-productive – it throws up so many warnings at everything that I bet most users will turn it off, thus defeating its very purpose.
The fact is, Microsucks is giving away half-baked software simply to retain a monopoly and chuck out the other security software vendors. Even that, it not the major issue in my opinion. What IS major is that many newbies and not-so-techie users may be lulled into believing they’re well-protected because they’ve Windows Defender, and might not go in for proper security suites. THIS is far more disconcerting – having a large section of computers users under a state of illusion that their PC is a fortress.
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And also, you didnt say anything abt the complete 64-bit/x86 compatibility in Vista, that is still missing in Linux… 😛
Also, who is interested to use .sxv files when it suffers from less adoption, lack of applications and is less widespread? It is like teaching everyone french in England just because you know french.
Be a Roman in Rome yaar, dont try to teach every damn minion English over there. Its easier for one person to learn Roman and stay in Rome rather than forcing the entire mob in learning English.
Hence, Oo is bad with a world universal standard. Even Google Docs works better with .doc files mate!(Dont know why that didnt occur to me on that day) Oo simply sucks. Its bullshit in front of MS Office 07, which works maska and looks awesome in Vista..!!
Just see, what would you feel, when a dumb unstable, incompatible, and less adopted app is (partly) responsible to spoil 13 days of hard effort..??
@Pras: Look, first you say that Vista has no compatibility problems, and then say that how can XP drivers work without optimisation. Make up your mind on what you want to say! :p
Are you aware of the fact that open document formats are being adopted at many places? And it’s .sxw
Obviously yaar, i just wrote a huge big thesis on OSS. But it would take it an eternity to capitalise the market the way MS has done it.
Also, compatibility in sense, architecture independent programming exists in vista. It gives you 64-bit support along with x86 program support. As for windows xp compatibility, networking and file sharing is easy. But program compatibility isnt a 100%.
Come on, its an entirely new OS. Even Ubuntu feisty has a new Graphics driver for it that is different from the one on Edgy. Why not Vista?
MS defined a standard. You have to admit it. Its just bad that the standard isnt open for everyone but MS softwares!